Englishness: politics and culture 1880-192 [Second edition] 9781472523341, 9781472527530, 9781472522672, 9781472525697, 1472522672, 1472523342, 1472525698, 1472527534

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Englishness: politics and culture 1880-192 [Second edition]
 9781472523341, 9781472527530, 9781472522672, 9781472525697, 1472522672, 1472523342, 1472525698, 1472527534

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Contributors in 1986
Preface
Introduction to the second edition
Select bibliography
Chapter 1 Englishness and the national culture
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Notes
Chapter 2 Englishness and the political culture
1688 and a Liberal freedom
The absorbing qualities of the State
Ireland
Empire
A vulnerable power: Enemies within and without
State becomes Society
Notes
Chapter 3 The discovery of rural England
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Notes
Chapter 4 The invention of English
The crisis of leadership. From classics to EnglishNew cultural strategies
The new English
Culture, society and the English Association
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 5 A literature for England
Forging the English literary tradition
Romantic culture and patriotism
English fields and flowers of verse
The fiction of an essential England
Unknown England and nowhere lands
Notes
Chapter 6 The identity of English music: The reception of Elgar 1898-1935
Elgar established: 1890-1914
Elgar and the war effort
Neglect? 1920-30
The Englishness of Elgar redefined
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7 The Englishwoman
Notes. Chapter 8 'The Marginal Britons': The IrishNotes
Chapter 9 Englishness and the Liberal inheritance after 1886
From Liberalism to Englishness
Before and after 1886
Collectivism and Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain and Arthur Mee
Aftermath
Notes
Chapter 10 The Conservative party and patriotism
I
II
III
IV
V
Notes
Chapter 11 Socialism, the state, and some oppositional Englishness
Keep smiling through
Flesh and Blood, in the cupboard
Before the idea of Englishness, England, and its State
Cut to 1984: The modern Leviathan
Yeast was in that dough
News from somewhere. Thomas KirkupWilliam Morris
So, what went wrong?
Notes
Afterword
Index.